Rebecca
Ward

Influenced by the Arte Povera movement, Rebecca Ward’s work is about the construction or deconstruction of an object and its relationship to a surrounding architecture. She started her exploration of material, processes and space with impressive large-scale installations made principally from duct tape. These tape installations evolved into full coloured large-scale exhibitions, which became her trademark. During her post-graduate studies, her work shifted towards less expressive paintings and sculptures in which she presented the "line" on canvas using domestic materials typically associated with women and domesticity as expressed according to the canon of a male dominated modernity. It is worth noting that the artist’s own statement is a scan of Roland Barthes essay “Soap-powders and Detergents”. This is a text published in Barthes’s famous collection of essays titled Mythologies, which looks at the tendency of social value systems to create modern myths. 

Ward’s work makes abundant references to that of ground breaking feminist artists Eva Hesse and Agnes Martin, whose limited palette, geometric vocabulary and muted tones evoke delicate transparency.